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AIBU to let them camp on an island overnight?

668 replies

chomalungma · 01/08/2020 18:01

(Inspired by another thread)

We are on holiday in the Lake District. Lovely cottage. DH is working away. DC's have seen a lovely island and want to go camping there for a few nights. Light a campfire, cook for themselves. They'll get there by sailing boat. Youngest is 6 and oldest is 14.

Would you let them go?

OP posts:
RedNun · 05/08/2020 14:31

This will be the last time I say this, Not everyone reads every single post

Yes, that's abundantly clear. However, not being able to get to the fourth post on a thread before leaping in with their fiats about the impossibility of children camping on lake islands with sailing boats suggests a really short attention span.

ineedaholidaynow · 05/08/2020 14:49

@PablosHoney there are over 500 posts on here and the thread is a few days old, the book was identified very quickly about 5 posts in, so there really is no excuse for people to not have at least realised this a lighthearted thread.

And there really is no excuse now as it is so easy to read all the OP's posts on the thread.

People should really read the thread before posting or at least read OP's posts or skim read the other. Obviously not that important on this thread, but on other threads I have read where the OP has asked a question about a sick relative, and then a 100 posts later this relative has died and still people who haven't Read the thread talk about possible cures for this relative. Or there is a current thread at the moment where someone has asked about GP's childcare, people piled on to say she was unreasonable the OP has accepted she is, but still people pile on. It is ignorant really.

CatandtheFiddle · 05/08/2020 15:14

This will be the last time I say this, Not everyone reads every single post

And if a poster doesn't and she hasn't, and she jumps in with a response which sounds pretty silly in terms of the OP and the thread as it has run on, and if other posters then take the mick, or comment, then that is her look out. And she should take it on the chin, and RTFT.

Not keep on and on for god, how many posts, Pablo ? How many carping posts are you aiming for?

Prettybluepigeons · 05/08/2020 15:32

@PablosHoney...for God's sake! Let it lie!

This isn't the thread for you obviously. There are millions that might suit you better!

PablosHoney · 05/08/2020 15:36

I will happily let it lie, I was responding to another poster, I thought that much was clear 😂 yes I have nothing further to say so if others could stop tagging me and asking me what I meant then that will be the end to it.

Notgoingouttoday · 05/08/2020 15:38

Swallows and Amazons, all very idealistic but unfortunately not living in the real world!

TeenPlusTwenties · 05/08/2020 15:42

Swallows and Amazons, all very idealistic but unfortunately not living in the real world!

It was probably more real world 90 years ago when it was written.

CatandtheFiddle · 05/08/2020 15:53

Well, I grew up living a life pretty close to that of the S&As - not boarding school (my parents had had that, and didn't want it for us) but roaming the countryside, independently - we did it on horses rather than boats, and map-reading, and camping, independently, and even lighting fires on our own. We were taught properly about how to do all of this stuff, as the Walkers were by their mother and (usefully absent) father.

Original poster
chomalungma · 05/08/2020 16:50

@PablosHoney

It’s not so much the not understanding, I don’t know what Mornington Crescent is either, it was the posters (Not OP) calling people who didn’t get it illiterate and stupid 🤷‍♀️
Which rules are people playing by?
OP posts:
Original poster
chomalungma · 05/08/2020 16:53

@PablosHoney

It’s not so much the not understanding, I don’t know what Mornington Crescent is either, it was the posters (Not OP) calling people who didn’t get it illiterate and stupid 🤷‍♀️
I think only one poster did that - having read the thread very carefully.
OP posts:
PablosHoney · 05/08/2020 16:58

Just leave it and enjoy your thread 😊

ineedaholidaynow · 05/08/2020 17:00

What I don’t understand is why you don’t leave it as you obviously don’t enjoy it!

PablosHoney · 05/08/2020 17:05

I had, but it’s still on my list so I can see when someone has asked me something or made an adverse comment about what I’ve said, So I’m not allowed right to reply? Don’t ask me anything further and just comment on the topic of the thread, win win.

ilovepixie · 05/08/2020 17:30

Only if they take Timmy the dog with them

Original poster
chomalungma · 05/08/2020 18:04

@PablosHoney
Do you want to know how to play Mornington Crescent?

OP posts:
missclimpson · 05/08/2020 18:21

Does the Northern Line end at Windemere?

PablosHoney · 05/08/2020 18:22

No, but thank you for asking 😊

elephantoverthehill · 05/08/2020 19:24

@missclimpson the Northern line on one route ends in High Barnett, was this perhaps the preferred hair style of Mrs Walker? I'll shunt to Kensington.

missclimpson · 05/08/2020 19:43

Rules of the thread contributions imply one stop short of Barking.

elephantoverthehill · 05/08/2020 20:27

I should not de-rail the thread. Kensington.

Original poster
chomalungma · 05/08/2020 20:27

@missclimpson

Rules of the thread contributions imply one stop short of Barking.
Are we playing the Duffers variation?
OP posts:
CatandtheFiddle · 05/08/2020 20:30

With added penalties if travelling at night.

ErrolTheDragon · 05/08/2020 23:08

@ilovepixie

Only if they take Timmy the dog with them
I don't think they'd be allowed to take someone else's dog with them.Grin
ErrolTheDragon · 05/08/2020 23:16

Are we playing the Duffers variation?

Do we have to?Hmm ok, Chalk Farm then.

Witchend · 05/08/2020 23:19

Isn't Chalk Farm if you're playing the navigation variation?